What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

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• David Lloyd George:

  Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

• David Lloyd George:

  The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

• David Lloyd George:

  He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

• David Lloyd George:

  Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

• David Lloyd George:

  A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a he

• Douglas Hyde:

  I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.

• Douglas Hyde:

  I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always

• Douglas Hyde:

  Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to i

• Douglas Hyde:

  It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their

• Catherine Booth:

  If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.